Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol was a man who was born and raised in the ghetto of Pittsburgh. Even though he was a blooming artist who grew up in the time of the depression, he still managed to become one of the most well known artists of all time. With only the shirt on his back and $200, Andy made a bold choice in his journey to being a famous artist, and moved to New York.

To speed up the process of creating art, the method that Warhol famously adopted was the silk screening process. In 1973, he used this technique to create a portrait of Chairman Mao Zedong. This is one of the best known examples of his use of this process, as seen below;

In 1964, Warhol created a work that actually had to be painted over because many people were offended by it. It was a painting called, 'Thirteen Most Wanted Men'. It caused quite the offense, because most of the men in the painting were Italian.
Like many artists, Warhol also created a few, 'Not so short,' films. The first film that Warhol ever created was titled, "Sleep". It was a six-hour movie of a man sleeping. Many of Warhols movies were like 'Sleep'... I mean in the sense that they were plot-less, boring, and extremely LONG.

In 1968, Warhol was shot by the feminist, Valerie Solanas. Valerie Solanas was an ardent feminist. She was one among many who felt that Warhol was controlling and abusive, (She may not have been wrong, there...) and thought that he deserved to die. Warhol was pronounced dead, but was revived and began a slow recovery. Some said he was a martyr, and others felt that deserved it. He then recovered and lived till 1987.